🇮🇹 Italian

mondo

masculine

il mondo

world

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mondo
/il ˈmondo/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mondo in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈmondo/

How do you pronounce mondo in Italian?

mondo is pronounced /il ˈmondo/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il mondo intero è stato colpito dalla pandemia.

The entire world was affected by the pandemic.

Un mondo nuovo e straordinario si è aperto davanti ai nostri occhi.

A new and extraordinary world opened up before our eyes.

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Why is it masculine?

Mondo is masculine because it derives from Latin "mundus," which was a masculine noun in the second declension (o-stem nouns), and Italian preserved the masculine gender of its Latin ancestor along with dropping the final -us ending.

What is the Italian word for world?

The Italian word for world is il mondo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmondelemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishmundoelmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemundoomasculine

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